2000 Congressional Medal of Honor Society Award Recipients

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1 2000 Congressional Medal of Honor Society Award Recipients Receiving awards in the last year were (top) Bill Mauldin Bob Hope Award for Excellence in Entertainment and Paul Harvey Tex McCrary Award for Excellence in Journalism. The prestigious National Patriot Award was presented to five professional athletes in recognition of the important role sports has always held for American servicemen and servicewomen. Accepting on behalf of their respective sports (center) are: Pat LaFontaine Hockey, Brooks Robinson Baseball, (bottom) Gene Fullmer Boxing, Arnold Palmer Golf, and David The Admiral Robinson Basketball. (Not pictured) Robert Rawlings received the Distinguished Citizens Award.

2 Three Marine Corps heroes, Robert O Malley (Vietnam War) and Jack Lucas and Mitchell Paige (World War II), share a moment together during the 1999 annual reunion in Riverside, California. Photo 1999 by Mick Bush

3 Lieutenant General Robert Foley, who received the Medal of Honor for heroic leadership as a company commander in Vietnam, joins the President in the annual placing of the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery.

4 Roger Donlon received the first Medal of Honor in Vietnam in the pre-dawn darkness of July 6, Returning Asia 30 years later, he visited the Singapore grave site of Kevin Conway, one of three Special Forces team members killed that night, and symbolically laid his Medal at the headstone.

5 Four bronze sentinels keep watch at Pueblo Colorado s National MOH memorial. Until the death of William Crawford and Carl Sitter in the early months of 2000, Pueblo was the only city in America with as many as 4 living Medal of Honor recipients.

6 WWII Marine Corps Ace of Aces Joe Foss with a Russian soldier who received his own Nation s version of the Medal of Honor. Photo 1999 by Mick Bush

7 Fifty years after the battle for Okinawa, World War II medic Desmond Doss returns to the spot on the Maeda Escarpment where he rescued more than one hundred wounded soldiers and earned the Medal of Honor.

8 Bob Bush with the hometown memorial to his heroism in Olympia. The unusual memorial depicts his heroism as a Navy Corpsman on Okinawa, beautifully carved out of wood. Photo 1999 by Mick Bush

9 More than 100 of the living Medal of Honor recipients joined the citizens of Indianapolis for Memorial Day in 1999 in activities that included a patriotic parade and the dedication of a new National Memorial to all recipients of the Medal of Honor. Photo 1999 by Mick Bush

10 Medal Of Honor Recipient Pete Lemon enlists the volunteer support of local students in a project that sent copies of his inspirational book Beyond The Medal to every middle and high school in America for Veterans Day, 1999.

11 Representing the millions of men and women of the Armed Forces of the United States, nearly 100 Medal of Honor recipients attended an impressive ceremony In our Nation s Capitol to recognize the Hero of the Century, the American G.I.

12 Harvey C. Barney Barnum, a Vietnam War Medal of Honor Recipient and President of the CMOH Society, takes time from his busy schedule during the annual reunion of the living recipients to share encouragement with a young boy with his own brand of courage. Photo 2000 by Mick Bush

13 Medal of Honor Recipients (l-r) Jack Montgomery, Walter Ehlers, Silvestre Herrera, Ernest Chief Childers, John Baker, Jack Lucas, Don Doc Ballard, Richard Sorenson, Eugene Fluckey, and Joe Rodriguez enjoy an afternoon visit to the US Air Force Academy Chapel.

14 John Finn, the last surviving Pearl Harbor Day Medal of Honor recipient, shares his experiences and his Medal with the staff of the Marine Corps museum at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego.

15 Seventy-five of the living Medal of Honor recipients pose for a group photo during Convention 2000 in Pueblo, Colorado S The Congressional Medal of Honor Society is the organization, chartered by Congress, that is the official representative of the recipients of the of the Medal of Honor. You can contact individual recipients, ask questions, and obtain information directly from the CMOH Society. CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR SOCIETY 40 Patriots Point Road John Finn, the last surviving Pearl Harbor Day Medal of Honor recipient, shares his experiences and his Medal with the staff Mount Pleasant, SC of the Marine Corps museum at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego. Phone: (843) Web Site: